Die Weltkonjunktur ist ausgesprochen schwach in das Jahr 2015 gestartet. Zwar wird sich die wirt­schaftliche Dynamik im weiteren Verlauf dieses Jah­res wieder verstärken und im kommenden Jahr voraussichtlich weiter an Fahrt gewinnen. Der An­stieg der Weltproduktion gerechnet auf Basis von...

Die Aufschwungskräfte in Deutschland haben wieder Tritt gefasst. In diesem Jahr nimmt die Wirtschaftsleistung um 1,8 Prozent zu, im nächsten Jahr dürfte die Expansion mit 2,0 Prozent noch etwas stärker sein. Stimuliert wird die Konjunktur in der ersten Hälfte des Prognosezeitraums...

The strong economic upswing in Germany has taken a break. For the current year, we revise our GDP growth forecast down by 0.5 percentage points to 2.0 percent. However, the slowdown in economic activity at the beginning of the year is mainly due to temporary factors. We therefore expect growth...

The pronounced expansion of the German economy accelerates further. Compared to our summer forecast, we adjust our forecast for the current and the next year upwards, and we expect gross domestic product to grow by 2 percent in the current year and 2.2 percent in the next year (summer forecast:...

The Euro Area is characterized by little variation in unemployment and strongly procyclical labor productivity. We capture both characteristics in a New Keynesian business cycle model with labor search frictions, where labor can vary along three margins: employment, hours, and effort. We...

We propose a structural vector-autoregressive model for the German natural gas market to investigate the impact of the 2022 Russian supply stop on the German economy. We combine conventional and narrative sign restrictions to leverage information about supply cuts for identification and find...

We use a structural VAR model to study the German natural gas market and investigate the impact of the 2022 Russian supply stop on the German economy. Combining conventional and narrative sign restrictions, we find that gas supply and demand shocks have large and persistent price effects, while...

We use a structural VAR model to study the German natural gas market and investigate the impact of the 2022 Russian supply stop on the German economy. Combining conventional and narrative sign restrictions, we find that gas supply and demand shocks have large and persistent price effects, while...